Applied Energistics 2 Tutorial - Even More Storage Extremes 

Dude, you have like.. a calming, Bob Ross type of voice. I was looking for the happy little trees. Like you don't understand. I was watching some thing about Extra Cells 2 for Fluid automation, and it sent me to this next as RU-vid Autoplay will do... And I'm still watching 21 minutes in, even though this has nothing to do with what I need to do in my game :P Watching this video has been great.

Dude you are the one and only youtuber that shows applied energistics 2 in a way that I really could understand it. Also you are one of the few ones who likes to push it to the limits and then show and explain it to other people. Thanks man and keep the channel running. You are great! ;)

theoretically, the best layout for the ME controller to maximize the number of faces usable would be a 3-D Hilbert curve - each controller block would only touch, at most, 2 others. It'd be a pain to hook up, though.

Chris Innanen Or 1856.157434 Octuple Compressed Cobblestone if you use Extra Utilities, which can tightly fit into a single drive.

You could give every human living on Earth right now ten cobblestone each and still have a lot remaining.

That blew my mind, subscribed. Although it would be better to make the video louder, it's hard to not hurt my ears when I am wearing headphones and turn the volume up high to match this video.

I can't thank you enough Nonsanity! This is the most encompassing tutorial on applied energistics tunnels that I have seen! I have shared the video with a few friends and plan to do so further.

Amazing, stumbled across your channel while searching for large ae2 controllers. Building out a new base on our Infinity server and was looking for ideas. Funny how you mentioned 80 billion and first thing that popped to mind was about 40 deep stores. Cut to the little surprise ending. I'll have to check out some of your other stuff, you've got some really cool looking and creative designs.

one of the most relaxing videos I've watched in a while, your voice is amazing :)

Absolutely unbelievable! Thank you for blowing my mind.

Love that you break down the math of items in a cell! Of course The Wall by Pink Floyd popped in my head... I find it easier to limit random items to smaller cells and larger cells get specific items to maximize storage since one loses so much storage with many items on larger drives (32256 aditional items if I do the math correctly). What would be really ineteresting is to compare the power consumption between subnetworked drives verses networked drives because AE2 is not just about storage but also the energy used to run it. Awesome stuff!

i need that in a couple decades in my survival world

Wow! love the video, and the ME Controller "Tutorial" part was awesome!!!!

Dude, your awesome! Keep up the great work! One idea though: I'd love to see a video detailing an advanced crafting system.

Wow.. dude how the heck that you come up with that..that is insane.. here is a thumbs up 👍

I've seen a few of your videos now. I hope you're still uploading something, because I think you've convinced me to subscribe.

I don't care what your name says; you, sir, are insane. I just binged on all of your Applied Energistics 2 tutorials and I am just flabbergasted by this mod. Great work, love the content. Just subscribed.

Fantastic tutorial and an even more fantastic voice! Really enjoyed watching :^]

Great done!! Awesome :-----) I like the way you show us how to make it on a clever way. I subscribed!

This is amazing. To just realize the magnitude of this thing is awesome. And to think that all of this could be compressed into one DSU makes me realize how overpowered that thing really is. :P

Amazing! I had always wondered how many items can ME systems store.

Finally...I understand! After several hours of research and tinkering I have created a system to autocraft quad uranium cells from the ore using AE2. I see how channels can be a pain, but it does make you more aware of cable management and routing. Also if you want to see the machine I can send you the file

I saw this a few days ago and it inspired me to try to improve the 7*7*7 ME Controller design. Currently I have one with a total of 696 faces, the design featured in your video has a total of 510 faces. When you multiply that by 32 channels per face, your design can supply 16,320 channels, and my new one can supply 22,272 channels. With my design it is essential however that it gets power from the inside, which with the modpack I am using is easy because I can use enderIO's Dimensional Transceiver. There are also an additional 15 blocks in the middle that are not ME Controller's, and can be replaced with other blocks. One of them has to be the Dimensional Transceiver, but apart from that you could add another 14 ME Drives if it is storage you need, I also believe that you could add 5 Molecular Assemblers connected to one interface in place of 6 of those ME Drives, and you could also fill the gaps with other components that you might not need access to, such as an ME Security Terminal after you have configured it for everyone on your server, or an ME Wireless Access Point once you have given it as many upgrades as you need to cover your base. I have gone for adding 14 ME Drives to mine just to boost the storage slightly, so in my system I can have a maximum of 222,286 ME Drives, each having 10 64k ME Storage Cell's, which if you fill up with just one item (like in your cobble example) then you could store 115,929,989,120 cobblestone. In the system in your video the maximum amount is 84,895,334,400. I'm probably going to record a video of it in a couple of days to demonstrate it, if you are interested I can show you it in closer detail then.

I think it's really cool that you explain everything in this much detail and size but you should also let everyone know that you could replace the whole thing with one deep storage unit

Amazing, this is really helping me make my own me system!

Seriously though, I learned how to do ae2 from your videos. Now I make Ae2 data centers for people on servers lol. Keep up the great work!

+René Wattenberg (You have replies disabled in your Google+ settings.) The blocks between the drives are Graphite storage blocks (9 Graphite ingots) from the Big Reactors mod. You smelt charcoal a second time to get the ingots. The blocks are one of my favorite accent textures because of their industrial look. :)

Thank u for that video it is the best ive ever seen

it is datacenter of the Google. :D

OMFG!!! YOU ARE INSANE SIR TECH GOD!!! How did I miss this video!! :D

This is very much the video i wanted after your previous tutorial, a clean explanation of how storage works and how bigger isnt always better. And personally speaking, this video could use a little giggle at the end. a Deep storage unit from MFR can hold just over 2 billion. 40 of those could hold the same 80 billion, and be stored inside a DSU. The wall could be compressed down to a single block. Or slapped on a 1k, and store some other junk.

MAN you are so awesome i just watch your video and i cant believe what you have done!! WELCOME TO THE WALL, THIS IS THE WAAALLLL OF STORAGE!!! D:

You are my hero.

Great video. Love knowing more about AE2. I have a question, How much RF would it take to power it? Thx, Lingo

You just gotta love the diffraction caused by such an enormous setup that is reminiscent of ole CRT monitors and TVs. Mostly the latter.

+JoeAceJR I mean the first video on storage mechanics, you can place things in a terminal with enderio which can be used to pump items from a chest without any complex setup, and therefore the terminal will automatically clear itself however possible, I.e. By sending items unto the a.e. System, replace terminal with that thing that cab do auto crafting and has 2 rows for a GUI [windows phone can't reply]

Nice build, extreme is almost too weak to describe this! Question: Did you ever build or get suggested an controller design that is maxed out? I made a design with 22841 channels and had at that time not seen or heard of any with higher numbers. Have not looked around but curious to hear if this has changed in the last four years... :)

Your voice is so soothing n_n Nice video!

You should do a demonstration on what it would take to compress all of that cobblestone into 8x compressed cobblestone in a reasonable amount of time from the extra utilities mod using the auto crafting capabilities from AE2.

Just saw this, very cool

Yes thank you! I have now somewhat an understanding of channels and p2p tunnels. Before I would only make like a 1x3 controllers for my build because I didn't know how to expand and it would hurt my walnut brain. Now it makes sense on how to expand mine. Also why did you put another controller(not connecting to the main one) on top of your example build?

Woooow that´s crazy. I kinda just scrolled to the end since I know the possibilities in ae2. That´s ooooone big system though. Did you do it with world edit?

Do you have a FULL tutorial for that brain cube thing? Also, is it still possible to access its inventory or individual sections of its inventory using more than one interface? ALSO, how much power does the brain cube consume?

Haha, two seconds in i said "this is clearly Algo", you sound juuuust like him. Awesome though, I support this.

did you say that you put in all the drives manually or did you have some sort of automation for that?

Is there a way to use the inside faces for more?

+Matthew Schulz The fastest way to craft bedrockium, or at least to craft the compressed cobblestone required to make it, is to use Steve's Factory Manager. Applied Energistics 2 is nowhere near as fast-I've tried it. I always set it up in my recent Let's Play series, usually pretty early on so, so it has time to build up.

+Joseph Harrietha (You have replies turned off in your Google+ settings.) If you check the end of the video, I demonstrate how 40 DSUs can hold as much. You hit stop too soon. ;)

HELLO what modpack are you playing in your minecraft world

this just earned you a sub.

Could you have a series of memory controller cubes and connect a transport network that links all the transport networks for each cube to make a truly insane sized setup? I am aware of the storage bus trick but it would be interesting to know if this would work? My understanding of AE2 is in its infancy.

His storage system is over 9000!

+Michael Lingafelter (You have replies turned off in your Google+ settings.) I'll be looking into the power requirements in the behind the scenes video I made. Expect that later today-if all goes well.

How can I watch the borg cube storage video can't find it

Another awesome video! Apart from talking on here, in what ways can I talk to you.. more.. privately?

This is a like a much more amazing version of the mfr deep storage unit.

Ooh, you have one of those satisfying clicky-mice :0

Thats truly Nonsanity You need to name that video "R34 Applied Eneergistics"

looks so cool

What about a 7 x 7 x 7 Hilbert Curve ? Is it not even bigger for the Cube ?

I would like to see you do tips and tricks for interfacing AE2 with machines and autocrafting.

OMG, Thank you for showing me Pistronics! Didn't knew the mod before. Defenitly going in my ModPack :P. by the way, is the Modsauce series dead? I really liked it :D

Industrial foregoing: you can contract that into few black hole units which only costs 4 iron, 1red stone block, 4 wood planks, 2 chests, 2 ender eyes and 3 plastic

Could you knock out several corners of the inner rings and run cables in there (using cable anchors) to put P2P buses on the inside of the controller cube? Alternatively, and this is crazy, could you add quantum bridges inside the controller cube to port those channels outside?

Impressive video, but what's the point of the me controllers in between the dense cables?

omg your voice is beautiful.

24:45 - That's why I love using DSU-Subnets so much more than drives when I know I'll have tons of items. :) I've only built it in parts, but what I'd love to do is make a DSU (overflow) subnetwork with JABBA barrels as the "primary" storage, just to make a build look pretty. i.e., have a JABBA barrel always keep 64 stacks of 64 cobble, but have excess cobble wind up in the DSU, and only refill the barrel when it drops below a certain limit.

you could supply the energy with a quantum bridge inside the Controller (it has that 3x3x3 Cavity inside that could fit 2 Quantum Bridges)

Thats... massive. I've never needed that much storage... is that all stone or something or stuff you mined out?

OMFG, super soaryn drive: there is the door! Grats on the 1024 subs.

I love the wall, but it made me sad to think that's not even half of a DSU's space. How long did that take to build? (+1 sub)

That is some madness going on with getting the channels to all of those. MADNESS! (or Sparta). Nonsanity, did you see the trick with sub-network storage using a storage bus? All that could be on one channel in the main network. And not a single dense cable or controller required. Case in point: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fsQHchP2iK8.html Granted, yours looks so much cooler.

I'm still used to AE1 and I find this amazingly complex even though I built fully automated fusion reactor fuel supplies (Gregtech), and Automated coffee shops. Do ME controllers still serve the same purpose of supplying power to the network? Or do they do something entirely different?. BTW AWESOME :)

As of right now, AE2 systems need an energy acceptor. They run on an energy system thats called AE aswell. The mod adds a means of generating AE directly, but most energy generators produce RF.

Wait, couldnt you use subnets to expand this storage system infinitely somehow? Or is it impossible due to channel limits?

what kind of supercomputer you had/have?! this big ME controller works on my computer like 6 - 7 minutes!

Nice vid ^^ By the way, saw the end and ... had to try xD Found a way to have 17*32*32 chans (total) ... 17 408 so 174 080 disk space with extra-cell it's 362 220 093 440 stacks so 23 182 085 980 160 items and with extra utilities: 997 912 787 385 959 055 360 cobble stones ... Completly useless, but how fun would it be xD

I wonder how much storage you could have if you had extra cells installed with AE, would be a good video

If you want so store cobblestone, one single easy to build Crafter Tier 3 from RFTools will compress and hold up to 82,649,704,320 blocks of cobblestone. Which in theory would make that 1 cubic meter bloc so heavy and dense that if it existed in the real universe would very likely implode into a stellar black hole. :)

80 billion... Forty DSUs lol

how did you automate the building of this? there's no link to that video

have you ever thought of taking one controller out of the cube and use the inside of the cube too :) with my patience level i was able to get an additional 2000 channels out of the inside on a multiplayer server -albeit that the server owners were freaked out at the size XD

That or 40 DSUs :). Perhaps that filled with DSUs filled with cobble?

Holy mother of god dude....

Wat version of EE3 are you using? You must be able to produce the Minium Dust, else you wouldn't have any reason to use EE3 because you need minium dust in order to progress through the mod. Several versions of EE3 do not assign an energy-value to minium dust on my system, probably because those versions are broken. I know you are using minecraft 1.7.10, because Applied Energistics 2 was never released for 1.6.4. Please tell me, so that I can produce Minium Dust and use the mod as it was intended.

what pack was the video on

how do you get to the faces on the inside?

I dont get how the p2p tunnels help, what purpose do they do?

was this video recorded on a laptop? the clicking sounds like it

You can store items in items in items in items (from other mods).................... in drives.... and have a black hole in minecraft. (or at least some spikes coming up from that direction)

That's fucking insane...I Love it :D

did you think about replacing the actual cells with the 16384k cells from extracells filled with octuple compressed cobble in your enormous storage system ?

Time to use the interface/storage bus trick to make the Borg cube MkII

The Wall of "What the Fu*k, why would you do this Nonsanity!" It should be illegal! :)

Can u do a tutorial on all the wiring on the controller design plz

Can you level it up into a cube? Then use it in a survival mode with some popular and famous modpacks like FTB or All the mods.

the wall holds at least 5% of cobble needed for a E2E recipe

this design is awesome cuz you can put a quantum computer inside it. i just tried it and it works very well XD

The casual player's ME storage compared to THE WALL feels like the modded equivalent of a dirt house compared to a grand cathedral.

So what if you used storage buses hooked up to DSUs and filled those with cobble? (Instead of all the ME drives)